Technocracy In The Modern Context

Technocracy Technocracy in the Modern Contextin the Modern Context

Dr. Andrew Wallace PhDDr. Andrew Wallace PhD

OverviewOverview

The world as it is todayThe world as it is today Technocracy as an alternativeTechnocracy as an alternative An overview of technocracyAn overview of technocracy

The World as it is TodayThe World as it is Today

EnvironmentEnvironment Starvation and povertyStarvation and poverty Ozone holeOzone hole Global warmingGlobal warming Rain forestRain forest Peak oilPeak oil

EnvironmentEnvironment

PollutionPollution Soil erosionSoil erosion PesticidesPesticides Waste disposalWaste disposal

How effective are efforts to combat these problems?

Starvation and PovertyStarvation and Poverty

About 800 million About 800 million people go hungrypeople go hungry

Efforts to stop hunger, Efforts to stop hunger, starvation and poverty starvation and poverty in the world has come in the world has come to a haltto a halt

Yet we have more Yet we have more food than we can eat!food than we can eat!

Ozone HoleOzone Hole

Caused by Caused by pollutionpollution

Efforts to reduce Efforts to reduce the hole maybe the hole maybe workingworking

But what about But what about global warming?global warming?

Global WarmingGlobal Warming

Climate changeClimate change How effective are we How effective are we

at combating this?at combating this?

Rain ForestsRain Forests

From 14% to 6%From 14% to 6% Estimated that it could Estimated that it could

be gone by mid 21be gone by mid 21stst century century

Peak OilPeak Oil

Oil production is Oil production is decliningdeclining

What will happen What will happen next?next?

Question.Question.

Why do we have these problems?Why do we have these problems? Many complex reasonsMany complex reasons But the underlying reason is … But the underlying reason is …

The current socio-economic system

The current socio-economic systemThe current socio-economic system

Business

Government

People

Enter Technocracy!

Technocracy offers a alternative socio-economic system

How?How?

Technocracy sees society as:Technocracy sees society as: TechnologyTechnology PeoplePeople

How?How?

The technical aspects of society should be The technical aspects of society should be run by those who are experts in the run by those who are experts in the technologytechnology

The people part run by true democracyThe people part run by true democracy

How?How?

The technical aspects run with the The technical aspects run with the following goal:following goal: Highest possible standard of living for as long Highest possible standard of living for as long

as possibleas possible

Highest standard of livingHighest standard of living

Units of productions under control of Units of productions under control of experts experts

No profitNo profit Minimise energyMinimise energy Minimise wasteMinimise waste

BalanceBalance production with demands production with demands

/ needs/ needs

For as long as possibleFor as long as possible

Minimise environmental impactMinimise environmental impact

BalanceBalance the needs of society the needs of society

with the needs of the eco-systemwith the needs of the eco-system

BalanceBalance

BalanceBalance

To balance the system we propose a To balance the system we propose a system using energy rather than moneysystem using energy rather than money

Energy is needed to run anythingEnergy is needed to run anything Money is debt and value is subjectiveMoney is debt and value is subjective

Therefore not a true measure of the systemTherefore not a true measure of the system

Energy credits are given equally to all Energy credits are given equally to all citizenscitizens They decide what is to be producedThey decide what is to be produced

SummarySummary

There are a number of complex problems in the There are a number of complex problems in the world todayworld today

The underlying cause is the current socio-The underlying cause is the current socio-economic systemeconomic system

Technocracy aims to replace the current Technocracy aims to replace the current system with an alternative systemsystem with an alternative system Technical aspects rules by expertsTechnical aspects rules by experts No money but energy creditsNo money but energy credits